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From: ab693@freenet.hamilton.on.ca (Kevin Driedger)
Subject: Re: Will Machines Take Over The World?(talk, Yorks, UK)
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Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 21:05:52 GMT
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Anthony R. McKay (a.r.mckay@shu.ac.uk) wrote:
: In article <romm-230595131057@host-95.dialup.winternet.com>, romm@winternet.com (David E Romm) says:

: In my opinion they already have....You can't describe a politician as 
: >> : human.

: In my opinion they already have if you concider a machine to be a man-made mechanism, whether it be a machine
: or a political structure. Certainly the freedom of the individual has been restricted since the inposition of civilisation.
: We have simply reached the point at which man has allowed his devices to dominate not only himself but the rest of
: our too, too small planet.

Give me a break

-Kevin Driedger
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